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God is The Strength of My Heart

This psalm is in the Old Testament, and yet it teaches us what is taught us in the New Testament, under the New Covenant, as well.

“Whom have I in heaven but You? And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.” (Psalm 73:25 NASB1995)

Our trust should not be in other humans. We should not depend on other humans, no matter who they are, to tell us the absolute truth about anything. For not everyone tells the truth. There are many liars and deceivers among us whose goal it is to lie to us and to deceive us and to misrepresent the truth in order to deliberately lead as many as possible to believe the lies and to reject the truth. So we need to be students of the Scriptures who study them in their correct biblical context so that we are learning the truth, and so God can reveal to us any lies we are believing.

God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – should be the one we look to for truth, and not other humans, and not history books, and not politicians, and not the news media (not even the alternative news media), and not pastors of church fellowships, etc., many of whom are lying to the people. Following the Lord Jesus with our lives, and obeying our Lord’s commands, should take top priority in our lives, as well. For how we live our lives should be led by the Spirit of God and not by our human flesh. And our desires should be God’s desires. And his ways should be our ways.

“My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” (Psalm 73:26 NASB1995)

We who believe in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives should be those who have been crucified with Christ in death to sin, and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as servants of the Lord and of his righteousness, in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living. Sin should no longer be what we practice, i.e. what we keep going back to as a dog returns to his vomit. But we should be followers of Jesus Christ who are living to do his will because we love Him.

But as those who still live in flesh bodies, we are works of God in process, and that process will not be complete until Jesus returns for his faithful ones and he takes us to be with him for eternity. We are still clay in the hands of the Potter (God), being molded to the image of Christ, as we cooperate fully with God’s work of grace in our lives. But that does not make us perfect. And, yet lack of perfection should never be used as an excuse for continued, deliberate, and habitual sin against our Lord. We must obey God in practice.

“For, behold, those who are far from You will perish; You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You.” (Psalm 73:27 NASB1995)

This is not just Old Testament teaching. This is what Jesus and his apostles taught us in the New Testament, as well, under the New Covenant. For faith in Jesus Christ is not something we just profess with our lips while we continue living however we want, doing what our sinful hearts desire. Faith, which is biblical, and which comes from God, and which is gifted to us by God, and which is not of our own doing, but which is persuaded of God, requires that we deny self, die to sin daily, and follow our Lord in obedience.

And the New Testament teaches us that if we do not follow our Lord in obedience, and if we continue walking in deliberate and habitual sin against our Lord, and so we are unfaithful to God, and if that is where we remain, that we will not have salvation from sin, and we will not inherit eternal life with God, regardless of what we profess with our lips. For faith = obedience, and disobedience = unbelief. So all who make sin their practice, and not obedience to God, will not inherit eternal life with God. God says so!

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1


As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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God is The Strength of My Heart
An Original Work / March 2, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Old Testament

I was reading some news stories on my iPad and there was one that interested me but I can’t access it without buying a subscription. It’s about the author(s) of the Old Testament. I did some googling and from what I’ve found so far, scholars believe that the OT was written by a number of men, over a very long period of time.
I’d always heard it was written by Moses. What does the Church teach?

World leaders react to death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, US-Israeli strikes in Iran

World leaders issued cautious and divided responses after the United States and Israeli strikes in Iran that reportedly killed the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other regime leaders on Saturday, raising fears of broader regional conflict.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on social media that Khamenei was dead and described the moment as “the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country.” Iranian state media also reported early Sunday that the 86-year-old leader had died without providing a cause.

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FBI probes Texas bar shooting that killed 2 and wounded 14 as possible terrorist act


AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A gunman wearing clothes with an Iranian flag design and the words “Property of Allah” killed two people and wounded 14 early Sunday at a Texas bar, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The FBI is investigating the shooting, which erupted a day after the U.S. and Israel launched an attack on Iran, as a potential act of terrorism.

I like how they use the word "Possible", as if there's any doubt.

Paul's Epistles Taken Out of Context: Part 1

Today I would love to shed some light on Paul's letters. Almost every time I talk to people at work, in town or village they are are always quoting Paul. Paul is one of Jesus greatest apostles and his letter can be difficult to understand, so what happens is many people try to use his letters to justify their version of Christianity. Let me clarify that Paul lived just like the prophets and the other apostles. If Moses told you to keep the commandments then Paul is telling you the same thing but many are not understanding this. Even Peter had to give a warning about Paul's letters. Let's take a look.

2 Peter 3: 14 - 16
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

It said some things are hard to be understood not all. That word wrest means to twist. In other words people twist Paul's writing to justify their ungodly lifestyle. In this part I will address the famous 1 Timothy 4: 4

4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

There you have it. Paul wrote it so it must means we can have pork and catfish right? Well not quite. Let's look at the entire thing again.

1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
In verse 3 Paul is speaking about the roman catholic church because nuns and the monks can't marry and have meat.
Every creature of God is good for what God created it for but not every creature is good to eat. The key difference is in verse 5 where it says it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. To sancitfy means to set apart and Jesus is the word of God he is the one set apart what is clean and unclean.

Leviticus 11: 44, 46- 47
44 For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

46 This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:

47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.


God has an entire chapter dedicated to what beast we can eat and what beast we cannot eat if we are to be his servants. He is not a vain God. It is a vain thing to have a dietary law if all we needed to do was pray over what we are about to eat. You cannot eat unclean beast and call yourself a Christian, neither will praying over it will make it clean. Moses wrote what Jesus spake to him so if you don't believe Moses then you don't believe Jesus plain and simple

John 5: 46 - 47
46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.

47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

If you don't believe Moses then you simply don't believe Jesus. Those are his words not mines.

I will end this thread with a warning and whoever has ears to hear let him hear

Proverbs 28: 9
9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
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Gun Toter Slogans Increasingly Aggravating

Where I live, a local gun store also sells tee shirts. Here is a slogan from one of their tee shirts:

I Lubricate My AR-15 with Liberal Tears.”

This is at a store called the Bean Armory.

I doubt that the person who came up with this slogan would know a liberal if they tripped over one. I certainly see no concern with personal safety or public safety. The only thing I see is intolerance, if not pure hatred. Are we expected to believe that gun stores are have respectable, level-headed management?

Another local gunstore and firing range is called Spray and Pray Guns and Ammo. “Spray” means to spray bullets from a gun. Notice how they connect gun ownership and firing guns as a hobby to religion. It is all supposed to go together.

Woman who was jailed and threatened with stoning for wearing 'Allah is a lesbian' T-shirt now faces having arm amputated as health suffers.


Lachgar wore the T-shirt for a 2022 Facebook post as an act of solidarity with two LGBTQ+ activists in Iran, who were sentenced to death that same year after being accused of promoting homosexuality, promoting Christianity and communicating with media opposed to the Islamic Republic.

False Gospel vs True Gospel

“So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.” (Romans 8:12-14 NASB1995)

Many people today are teaching a half-truth (lie) gospel which is being produced via blending truth and lies together, and via taking Scriptures out of their correct biblical context to make them teach what they do not say if taught in the appropriate biblical context. They appear as truth, because the statements used are quoted from the Scriptures. But when deliberately used out of context they can teach what is false, and much of this is being done today deliberately by “wolves in sheep’s clothing,” out to deceive the people.

Many are teaching that a verbal confession of Christ as Lord is enough to secure them salvation from sin and eternal life with God, regardless of how they live, even if they continue living in deliberate and habitual sin against God. They teach that no works are required of them, while they claim that their inheritance with God is still guaranteed. And they don’t believe that their habitual disobedience and the ignoring of God’s commands will ever separate them from Christ, since they claim to be of faith in Jesus Christ.

And, yes, it is true that salvation, i.e. deliverance from sin’s control over our lives, is by the grace of God, through God-gifted faith in Christ, and is not of human flesh, not by the works of the flesh. But “we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them” (Ephesians 2:8-10). And God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives (Titus 2:11-14).

And faith is the Greek word “pistis” which means faith, faithfulness, fidelity, pledge, persuasion, and moral conviction of God’s truth. For the believer in Jesus Christ it means to be persuaded of God as to his righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to die to sin and to obey God and his commands (New Covenant), by the grace of God, in the power of God. For this faith comes from God, and it is not of ourselves, so it is divine persuasion as to what God prefers which is the persuasion of the will of God.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

And we learn in 1 John 1-3 that if we claim that we have fellowship with God, but yet we walk in darkness (sin), we are liars. If we claim that we know God, but we do not obey his commandments, in practice, we are liars. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven.

So, this is what it looks like if we believe in Jesus Christ in truth. It is not something produced by a profession of faith only, which does not result in biblical repentance, dying to sin daily, by the Spirit, and walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands. And “In Christ” means we have died with him to sin and we are now walking in obedience to his commands, in his power. It doesn’t make us perfect, but if sin is what we practice, and if obedience to God is not our practice, we will not have salvation and eternal life with God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

Realizing

An Original Work / May 14, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love


Realizing what He did for you
Should cause you to walk with Him in truth.
Trust in Him to be your Lord today.
Turn from sin; obey without delay.

Realizing He died on a tree,
So that from sin you could be set free,
Should bring you down upon bended knee,
Repentant; humbly; submissively.

Realizing that He loves us so,
Which is why, to the cross He did go,
Is what leads us to salvation free,
Through our faith in Jesus Christ our King.

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An Original Work / March 1, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Please pray for my family, my dad has stage 4 cancer and my mom has heart failure and possibly cancer, both in severe pain

My dad has aggressive stage 4 prostate cancer that's spread, my mom has neuropathy pain, heart failure and a bad back from a failed back surgery and our family doctor has absolutely no sympathy for either of them. Their doctor retired about 2 years ago and they were on 60mg morphine which was helping, but when the doctor retired and they had to change doctors, they refused to keep them on pain medicine and instead decided to keep lowering the dosage until they were off of it. They've tried 2 other doctors and pain management, but nobody is willing to help them, and last year my dad was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer, and his pain is so severe it keeps him up at night. They're currently on 15mg morphine and it isn't doing much at all for them. Their current doctor just simply doesn't care, and the ones before that said "they don't give out that kind of medication"

I'm at a loss. I don't know what I can do for them. I don't know why these doctors are just letting them suffer when they had no problems with the pain medication before. We're taking my dad to the hospital in the morning because at least the hospital can keep him out of pain for a while. Please pray for God to heal them and for these doctors to have sympathy for them.

DHS says man accused of Fairfax County bus stop killing resided in the US illegally


It should never have happened.
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Britney Spears's Iranian-American ex Sam Asghari delivers shocking take on Trump's strike on Iran

When asked to share his thoughts, Asghari said, 'I'm always grateful for America and I've always been a proud American - just because everything I have is because of America.'

The star added that he is 'even more proud to be an American' today before sending his gratitude to 'the soldiers and the military of the United States.'

Asghari further expressed that Khamenei's death was 'well-deserved.'

'He deserved a lot more than death because he's caused so much chaos around the world, American casualties,' as well as the deaths of Iranian civilians.

Asghari labeled the regime as 'brutal' and 'had to go at any cost because they've caused so much chaos in the Middle East.'


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Trump says US has sunk 9 Iranian ships and ‘largely destroyed’ its navy’s HQ

US President Donald Trump declares that the US has sunk nine Iranian navy ships.

“We are going after the rest [of Iran’s navy ships] — They will soon be floating at the bottom of the sea,” he declares on Truth Social.

“In a different attack, we largely destroyed their naval headquarters. Other than that, their navy is doing very well!” he declares.

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Iran latest: 3 US service members killed, 5 seriously wounded

  • The U.S. military says at least three American service members have died in Operation Epic Fury, the U.S.-Israeli military operation against Iran.
  • According to U.S. Central Command, at least five others were seriously injured and several more had concussions or were hit with shrapnel.
  • Iranian authorities say more than 200 people have been killed since the start of the U.S. and Israeli strikes that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior leaders.
At least three American service members have been killed and five more are seriously injured as U.S.-Israeli strikes continue against Iran.

The Pentagon announced the deaths in a social media post Sunday morning.

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How Trump's Iran gamble breaks from past regime overthrows

President Trump's bid to topple Iran's regime marks a sharp break from two decades of U.S. intervention playbooks across multiple presidencies.
The big picture: Trump's weekend strikes on Iran — and his explicit call for an uprising — diverge from how the U.S. approached regime pressure in Iraq and Venezuela, historians tell Axios. The gamble signals a more unpredictable stretch of his foreign policy ahead as he openly threatens force elsewhere.




  • The U.S. and Israel announced Saturday that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, was killed in an Israeli strike — throwing the future of the country's government into immediate uncertainty.
State of play: Trump announced military strikes against Iran on Saturday and vaguely called for Iranian people to overtake their government following months of their demanding a regime change amid worsening economic conditions.
  • The attacks were a result of failed diplomacy over Iran's nuclear weapon supply as tensions mounted between the countries through Trump's second term.
After announcing the operation Saturday, Trump addressed Iranians in a video: "When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations."
  • Trump exclusively told Axios the "off ramps" he envisions: "I can go long and take over the whole thing, or end it in two or three days and tell the Iranians: 'See you again in a few years if you start rebuilding [your nuclear and missile programs]."
Reality check: Trump's Iran play is different than the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 under former President George W. Bush and the seizure of Venezuela's leader Nicolás Maduro in January — two instances where the U.S. took a more direct hand in dismantling a government's power structure.

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Was Thomas Jefferson really a lifelong skeptic?

In February 1777, Thomas Jefferson helped establish an Evangelical church. What? Yes, that Thomas Jefferson. It was called the Calvinisitical Reformed Church of Charlottesville. And it met in the local courthouse. Why, that’s enough to give the ACLU apoplexy.

This was less than a year after he wrotethe first draft of the Declaration of Independence.

It’s important to understand that the early Thomas Jefferson was much more faithful to his professed Christian faith than we are led to believe.

Yes, he harbored serious doubts later in life. But the early Jefferson who wrotethat “all men are created equal” and who referenced God in our nation’s chief founding document was by all outward appearances, a believing Christian.

This is important to grasp because, for the last century or so, Thomas Jefferson has often been portrayed as some sort of lifelong skeptic. And that is not true.

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3 killed, 14 injured after downtown Austin shooting; police say suspect dead

The Austin Police Department says that 3 people are dead, including the suspect, and 14 were injured after a shooting just before 2 a.m.

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From Sports Illustrated to Bible study, Kathy Ireland shares how God redeemed her story

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Kathy Ireland was 18, and alone in a Paris apartment when she opened a Bible her mother had tucked into her suitcase.

“I’d never read one before,” the 62-year-old former supermodel told The Christian Post. “I opened to the book of Matthew, and as I read, I knew that what I had in my hands was the truth. I just thought, I want to follow Him. I want to follow Jesus.”

It was 1981. Ireland had just begun modeling, a career that would eventually make her one of the most recognizable faces in the nation. But she said the moment of encountering Jesus reshaped how she understood success.

“If God is with us, who can be against us?” she said. “I didn’t care who liked me or didn’t like me. He loved me. What else mattered?”

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Second Sunday in Lent (EF)

March 1, 2026

Morning Prayers

Our Morning Offering – 1 March– Glory, Honour and Praise, To Our Lord Jesus Christ!

1 March – The Month of the St Joseph

March 1st — The Foreshadowing of St. Joseph

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Second Sunday in Lent propers & commentary

Second Sunday of Lent propers & commentary (Gueranger)


Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's instruction on the Second Sunday in Lent (Reminiscere)

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LENTCAzT 2026 – 12: 2nd Sunday in Lent – Benedict XVI from Lent of sad 2013

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Roman Station - Holy Mary in Domnica
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'We are very close to final victory': Exiled Iranian activist Reza Pahlavi, potential successor to lead Iran

Full transcript of Pahlavi’s statement to the Iranian people

This is the full transcript of a statement delivered by Reza Pahlavi, an Iranian political activist and dissident in exile in the United States, who is also referred to as the exiled Crown Prince of Iran and the eldest son of the last Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, upon the start of a joint U.S.-Israeli military operation against the Iranian regime on Saturday morning.

My dear compatriots,

Moments of destiny lie ahead of us.

The aid that the President of the United States promised to the brave people of Iran has now arrived. This is a humanitarian intervention; and its target is the Islamic Republic, its repressive apparatus, and its machinery of slaughter—not the country and great nation of Iran.

But even with the arrival of this aid, the final victory will still be forged by our hands. It is we, the people of Iran, who will finish the job in this final battle. The time to return to the streets is near.

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As we once again enter War

War does not solve problems, but rather it amplifies them and produces deep wounds in the history of people that take generations to heal," he said. "No armed victory can compensate for the pain of mothers, the fear of children, the stolen future."

"Let diplomacy silence the weapons," Pope Leo said. "Let nations chart their future with works of peace, not with violence and bloody conflicts!"

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Democrats Vow Revenge Against Corporations that Courted Trump if They Take Back Power After the Midterms

Democrats are weighing how to target corporations that have courted President Donald Trump’s approval if they retake the House after the midterm elections.

Semafor reported that, given Democrats’ chances of retaking the House, top Democrats are now devising how to focus on alleged corruption in the Trump administration amongst other issues in their investigative agenda.

“There’s opportunities to look at not just corporations that we think are enabling some of Trump’s corruption, but certainly corporations that are not supporting American families and not really focusing on affordability,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, said.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said he might focus on potential violations of the Emoluments Clause, which bars the president from receiving gifts from foreign powers or American taxpayers.

“The cardinal, original sin of Trump was to decide that he was going to use the presidency as a profit-making enterprise in his first term, and I would say that Congress should have impeached him for receiving millions and millions of dollars from foreign governments,” Raskin remarked.

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God's Chosen People

Jesus Christ said to the unbelieving Jews, “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it.” (Matthew 21:43 NASB1995)
“That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.” (Romans 9:8)
“Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, ‘And to seeds,’ as one would in referring to many, but rather as in referring to one, ‘And to your seed,’ that is, Christ. (Galatians 3:16)
“And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.” (Galatians 3:29)
“…His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility... For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.” (Ephesians 2:15-18)
“This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.” (Ephesians 3:6)
“Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.” (1 John 2:22)

The physical nation called “Israel” is a political entity comprised of mostly Jews, most all of whom do not believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they do not believe in Jesus Christ, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Only about 2% of the population of physical political Israel identify as Christian. So the nation, as a singular unit, does not worship the God of their ancestors, thus they are antichrist.

[Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19; Matthew 21:43; John 8:18-19,38-47; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:1-6; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9]

So, according to the Scriptures, taught in the correct biblical context, all Jews who have rejected Jesus Christ as their Lord and Messiah are not biblical Israel. They are not God’s chosen people, his holy nation. Now all who believe in Jesus Christ, whether Jew or Gentile by physical birth, are God’s chosen people and heirs of the promise made to Abraham and to his seed, Jesus Christ. We are biblical Israel, the only Israel of God.

But somewhere along the line in human history someone began teaching Christians that they were to raise up the Jewish people to some kind of honorary status almost in a worshipful kind of sense to where they were convinced that the physical and political nation of Israel was still biblically God’s holy nation, his people, and a people that we should give our loyalty, devotion, and support to, as though they are still God’s chosen people.

But that is a lie. For the Scriptures do not support that. And they teach that all Jews who do not believe in Jesus Christ are the same as anyone else who does not believe in Jesus Christ, so they are the same as their Arab neighbors. And the holy city is no longer in physical Jerusalem, because the vast majority of the Jews are still living in slavery to sin and not as obedient servants of the Lord Jesus Christ (see Galatians 4:22-31).

And the temple of God has not been a physical building ever since Jesus Christ gave his life up for us on that cross, and he rose from the dead, and he ascended back to the Father in heaven, and he sent his Holy Spirit to indwell the lives of his followers. We are now the temple of God in whom God dwells by his Spirit, and Jesus is the temple of God, so there will never be another temple of God, for God does not dwell in physical buildings.

And God has only one chosen people, and that is all who have trusted in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of their lives, whether Jew or Gentile by physical birth. Only through faith in Jesus Christ can any of us be God’s chosen people and his holy nation, and only if we have been crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as obedient servants of our God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Should I Not Preach Jesus

Based off 1 Corinthians 9:16-10:13
An Original Work / July 4, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love


Woe to me should I not preach Jesus.
I’m compelled to preach the full gospel.
I make myself a slave to ev’ryone
To win their hearts to Christ.
All this I do for my Lord Jesus,
And for the sake of His Name;
Do it for the sake of His gospel,
So that I, its blessings gain.

Scripture notates the sins of others;
Written down for us as examples
To keep us from setting our hearts
On evil as did those of old.
Do not worship other gods of man;
Do not give your hearts to them;
Not partake in immorality.
Do not test your Lord and King.

So, be careful if you think you are
Standing firm in your faith in Jesus.
God has given his word to warn us,
So through faith we will not fall.
No temptation has o’ertaken you
Except what is commonplace.
God is faithful to not let you be
Tempted past what you can bear.
He gives the way of escape.

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An Original Work / March 1, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

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